Grenada | ZunderVisuals – Zunder Visuals

Professor Zunder at your service:

In September 2019, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the School of Medicine at St. George's University in Grenada as a medical animator and educator. My role was to train the faculty of the Center for BioMedical Visualization in 2D animation and motion graphics. The focus of my visit centered around incorporating animation methods and techniques to enhance the material their team was producing. The goal was to explore fun ways to attract the attention and sustain the engagement of a younger medical student body while producing serious medical content for the classroom.

As it was my first time teaching in any capacity, I created a Google Form at the end of my visit to gather feedback about the course and general areas of improvement for future teaching opportunities. I was extremely humbled by the results.

I really enjoyed the easy/light way of teaching you brought. It did not feel forced and came very natural. The inspiration you included into your lectures were very engaging and a great future resource.

My knowledge in After Effects was very limited, and even though I had access to all the Youtube material and other sources, the way you presented made more sense to me and now I feel I have a good base to continue improving.

EXTREMELY helpful and well put together!

I think your lessons were structured well...and for your fist visiting professorship, I thought you did a great job. in the past we have had other VP's give presentations and tutorials, but we always loose momentum by the end of the week. With your visit I really think the way you taught and the project we did, kept everyone focused and enthused. I don't have much criticism because i really learned a lot, enjoyed the presentations and 1 on 1 time. I'd strive to keep this motif for your next visit

The course was very informative and inspiring. Not only in After Effects but the course shared some great recourses and artists to look to for ideas and tips and tricks.

I thought the courses were extremely relevant and informative

Excellent work. Your level of professionalism, mixed with humor, blended well in our office culture. The curriculum you created was appropriately sectioned into bite-sized chunks, minimizing the overwhelming feelings that motion graphics inherently produces. The formula (inspiration, theory slides, links to tutorials and live demo) worked well. (I appreciated the silly memes/gifs too). The topics felt customized and tailored to our specific group, which is exactly what I wanted. Huge success!

I really enjoyed the easy/light way of teaching you brought. It did not feel forced and came very natural. The inspiration you included into your lectures were very engaging and a great future resource.

For many of the students, this was their introduction to After Effects and motion graphics. I tailored my lesson plans to beginners and made sure to explore the use of fundamental animation concepts (eg. anticipation, squash and stretch) while also covering other useful tools for medical animation such as type reveals, particles and noise effects stacks. Many of the faculty have an undergraduate degree in Biological and Natural History Illustration, so they decided to play with some biological subject matter, such as animals and insects (instead of the more typical human anatomy and clinical subjects).

Visiting Professorship

St. George's University, Grenada

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